1-16-2011



Met up with my clients at 7 am in the rain. 1st cast landed a 12 inch bow and then nothing else for about an hour, except Dans nice Brown Trout. Moved locations and started to pick more fish up.



We moved to Lost Creek/EH/Spillway Creek. Water is way low. About 100 dead fish were spread out thought the river.....?















Clients had to get back to the cabin, so at about 2 pm till dark I picked up a few.

Total fish count:

Dan: 57
Tim: 23
Frank and his buddy: 25-30
Me: 37

Lots of people this trip. Fish were spooky. Still a lot of fun though.

Nice Catch . Way to put them on the fish Carey.

Cool report, looks like a fun trip!

Nice job Carey I love to fish for trout. But it has neen years

Carey,

Nice photos! I have just taken up fly fishing and will be making some trips with my cousin to fish the Lower Mountain Fork, and maybe some streams in Arkansas too. Question for you - what kind of wading boots are best suited for LMF - the ones with felt soles or rubber soles? Thanks for your help.

Felt

good job carey,good to know that the trout are biting. also, do you have any reports for walleye and sandies in the river, i know they just recently got back on a generation schedule, so i wanted to know if the water might get the walleye movin.

good job carey, nice to know the trout are biting,also do you have any reports for walleye and sandies in that river, i know they just got back on a gneration schedule, so i wanted to know if the walleye and magnums might start moving a little bit.

Report: Fishing was great this morning!

My client today, Andy, landed 22-25 Rainbow Trout by 10am. Then, the bite slowed a bit. The park quickly filled up as temps rose and the fish got super spooky with all the traffic. We tried crawling up to some holes and doing a sneak attack, but that was just not in the trouts mind. They just wanted to do circles in the pockets when they saw us. Hit Spillway Creek and did some hiking where no one was around and quickly landed 10-15 trout. Walked around the park looking for bigger fish but just could not get over the 18 inch mark. Decided to call it a day at 4pm due to all the trout were 15-16 inches on average, and got bored with them. Landed 37 Bows from 12 pm till 4 pm. All in all, good trip.

Flies that caught them today:

My secret fly.(Used 90% of the time)
EHC (from 2pm till 3 pm there was a good hatch and they were taking dry's)
PT's( dropped with a black zebra midge)
BWO's (caught 4 fish on them)
Olive Woolly Bugger ( they wanted the WB stripped fast today, picked up about a dozen on this.)
















Sometimes we catch little ones.....





Good job Andy! Maybe you can get the Wife out there next time!

looks like a great trip!

March 18th: Solo trip: Hit Spillway Creek first. Walked from Lost Creek to the dam and back and only picked up 11 bows. Slow start till about noon and then it started to pick up. San Juan worms worked before noon but they stopped hitting them after awhile. Had a hatch and BWO's and EHC were killer on the dry flies. Hatch stopped and so did the fish on the surface. Switched to my fly and it was game on. Took some good video footage again. And a bunch of fish pics which will be posted Sunday. I lost count on how many people I kicked out of the red zone on fishing bait. The deep hole on lost creek that holds lots of fish had about 30 in it till I walked up on a group with lawn chairs and about 20 trout on a stringer. So there are about 15 left in that hole now ish. Pissed me off.

It was a bit slower than a couple days ago and I left with a total of 73 rainbows 2 blue gill and 4 largemouth bass.

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March 19th:

Met up with my client and headed to the river about 7 am. Got to a hole that you had to make every roll cast count before we hit the bigger fish and made sure they got the feel for fly fishing so they wouldnt break all the bigger ones off... Had to tell her to smile and thats what she gave me. She was tring not to drop them.....lol





Before 9 am, they landed about 15 and then we moved to the Red Zone after I felt they were ready. Spotted a good fish and and She landed the fly perfect and had a great drift, and hooked up!









For the Next 2 hours or so she landed about 10 ish to 17 inches.

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My fish pics from the 2 days:

The GF came up for a couple hours and I told here there were bigger fish in the river than what she was catching, so we went to where the bigger fish were.....



I decided to drop a San Juan worm off of my fly for giggles and we were hooking 2 fish at the same time on one rod. After two break offs and many doubles, I just fished the SJW and they were jumping all over the worm too....

She landed 18 from 1 pm till 4 pm.

I landed about 30 or so. The park was crazy on Saturday and all the fish were spooked out of thier minds.....

30 second Rainbow Trout. During spring break.

I thought Rowlett Creek was bad on elbow to elbow. But I found some over looked places with lots of fish!

Awesome fish! I need to get back up there soon

Carey Thats awesome. Thanks for sharing the video!!

You sure did find some over looked places. I was wondering why on spring break those pictues weren't full of people. Nice and thanks for sharing.

Awesome trip! I love reading your reports

Great Shots! Good Job as always!!!

Its crazy that more of yall dont go up there. 2.5 hrs away from Plano, TX and you are in the mountains. You can use bait in some spots and catch the same sized fish. (6) Rainbows is you limit up there...... I ran into a couple TFF'ers last trip....

several ssl blue zone places that u can catch some monsters on spinning gear, just have to find them.

Is that below Lake Lewisville? I heard they stocked trout there.

do u mean is the lower mountain fork river below lake lewisville, because the answer is no.